Motivational Quotes

Youth

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

- Willa Cather

Best Quotes about Youth

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

10.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

11.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

12.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

13.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

14.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

27.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

29.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

31.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

40.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles